Personally though, I suspect this is yet another attempt at pulling their heads above water for a little while.
SGI used to be about innovation and advanced technology, and seriously high-end graphics. Now their relegated to making servers, and ones based on foreign, Intel chips at that.
I love Linux and I love SGI - but none of this will be what gets SGI out of the gutter.
Interestingly, there's a hotbed of activity in the Apple/G4/Mac OS X world that the Mac might be the platform to watch for 3D. Without OS X though, the G4 lags pretty far behind the Pentium in performance, as per a recent CGW article.
"We can fix your problem faster than anyone!"
"From 0 to production in no time flat!"
"Boost your productivity with TurboLinux!"
"Racing ahead of the competition!"
"Nobody beats our service!"
...and no MORON, it's not because older workers "don't keep up on their skills" or are "too expensive". It's because older
workers have a wife and or kids and can't work 70-100 hours per week. Only fresh unmarried college grads and H1B
workers with their whole family in a far away land can tolerate such employer abuse.
Get married? Have a kid? Need to cut back the work hours to "only" 40-50 per week as a responsibility to your family?
The you get fired. Yah, that's fair. The H1B visa increase just sanctions this behaviour by employers.
If employers keep this shit up, we'll see tech unions start to form. Hate unions? Hate the corruption? Hate the politics?
Well, you've got your chance to fix things NOW. Get on it. And don't whine when Union leaders are raking your business
over the fire later becaue you're blowing your chance to do the right thing now.
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The five million dollar BattleBots! :)
Personally though, I suspect this is yet another attempt at pulling their heads above water for a little while.
SGI used to be about innovation and advanced technology, and seriously high-end graphics. Now their relegated to making servers, and ones based on foreign, Intel chips at that.
I love Linux and I love SGI - but none of this will be what gets SGI out of the gutter.
Interestingly, there's a hotbed of activity in the Apple/G4/Mac OS X world that the Mac might be the platform to watch for 3D. Without OS X though, the G4 lags pretty far behind the Pentium in performance, as per a recent CGW article.
Have you seen the ads on TV? They're already advertishing the Playstation 9! Well, sort of. :)
That Energizer rabbit just won't quit! ;>
How fast one ages in these Internet years.
"From 0 to production in no time flat!"
"Boost your productivity with TurboLinux!"
"Racing ahead of the competition!"
"Nobody beats our service!"
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Get married? Have a kid? Need to cut back the work hours to "only" 40-50 per week as a responsibility to your family? The you get fired. Yah, that's fair. The H1B visa increase just sanctions this behaviour by employers.
If employers keep this shit up, we'll see tech unions start to form. Hate unions? Hate the corruption? Hate the politics? Well, you've got your chance to fix things NOW. Get on it. And don't whine when Union leaders are raking your business over the fire later becaue you're blowing your chance to do the right thing now.
New headlines - "Sun sues Apple over ____." ;>